In the trailer for the third episode, Putin shows Stone footage of what he says is "the work of our air force" against militants in Syria.

"You wouldn't want to join ISIS if you saw that," Stone intones in the trailer.

BUT, as it turns out, that footage on Putin's phone probably wasn't Russian at all. Instead, it seems it was as American as baseball, apple pie, and the Apache series of attack helicopter.

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As a Facebook user noticed, and Russian-language outlet Meduza published, the video Stone was shown looked an awful lot like footage, posted in 2013, of an apparent 2009 US strike against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

A defense official who reviewed the YouTube footage told BuzzFeed News that it looked to be legitimate, but the official was unable to definitively confirm when it was taken. They also noted that the footage didn't include any way to identify the potential unit that might have filmed it.

Russian researchers at the Counter Intelligence Team put together this handy composite of Putin's phone video and the 2013 footage for ~comparison purposes~.

"Are you gonna start with this blogging bullshit?" Stone responded when asked at a small press conference on Wednesday when asked about the claims that the footage wasn't Russian.

"The bloggers that say this, the bloggers say that, we're gonna be in here all day," Stone said on the stream, broadcast on Ruptly, a video service owned by Russia Today. "I mean, fine, I don't know. He brought a phone, he showed it to us, we filmed it and hes aid this was that. Why would he fake it?"

So well played, Mr. Putin. If that's a forgery you've got going on there, you've managed to convince the man who convinced America that the Zapruder film was fake that it's legit.

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There's no word yet on whether Putin also dubbed his piano-playing skills during his interviews with Stone, but given his previous performances, we can at least assume that was real.

Nancy Youssef contributed to this report from Washington, DC.

Hayes Brown is a world news editor and reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.